Barriers and opportunities of soil knowledge to address soil challenges: Stakeholders’ perspectives across Europe

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dc.contributor.authorVanino, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorPirelli, Tiziana
dc.contributor.authorDi Bene, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorBøe, Frederik
dc.contributor.authorCastanheira, Nádia
dc.contributor.authorChenu, Claire
dc.contributor.authorCornu, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorFeiza, Virginijus
dc.contributor.authorFornara, Dario
dc.contributor.authorHeller, Olivier
dc.contributor.authorKasparinskis, Raimonds
dc.contributor.authorKeesstra, Saskia
dc.contributor.authorLasorella, Maria Valentina
dc.contributor.authorMadenoğlu, Sevinç
dc.contributor.authorMeurer, Katharina H.E.
dc.contributor.authorO'Sullivan, Lilian
dc.contributor.authorPeter, Noemi
dc.contributor.authorPiccini, Chiara
dc.contributor.authorSiebielec, Grzegorz
dc.contributor.authorSmreczak, Bozena
dc.contributor.authorThorsøe, Martin Hvarregaard
dc.contributor.authorFarina, Roberta
dc.contributor.departmentEnvironmental Protection
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T14:26:02Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T14:26:02Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-31
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 18 October 2022; Published online - 31 October 2022.
dc.description.abstractClimate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soil is critical to improve soil health, enhance food and water security, contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity preservation, and improve human health and wellbeing. The European Joint Programme for Soil (EJP SOIL) started in 2020 with the aim to significantly improve soil management knowledge and create a sustainable and integrated European soil research system. EJP SOIL involves more than 350 scientists across 24 Countries and has been addressing multiple aspects associated with soil management across different European agroecosystems. This study summarizes the key findings of stakeholder consultations conducted at the national level across 20 countries with the aim to identify important barriers and challenges currently affecting soil knowledge but also assess opportunities to overcome these obstacles. Our findings demonstrate that there is significant room for improvement in terms of knowledge production, dissemination and adoption. Among the most important barriers identified by consulted stakeholders are technical, political, social and economic obstacles, which strongly limit the development and full exploitation of the outcomes of soil research. The main soil challenge across consulted member states remains to improve soil organic matter and peat soil conservation while soil water storage capacity is a key challenge in Southern Europe. Findings from this study clearly suggest that going forward climate-smart sustainable soil management will benefit from (1) increases in research funding, (2) the maintenance and valorisation of long-term (field) experiments, (3) the creation of knowledge sharing networks and interlinked national and European infrastructures, and (4) the development of regionally-tailored soil management strategies. All the above-mentioned interventions can contribute to the creation of healthy, resilient and sustainable soil ecosystems across Europe.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was developed in the framework of the European Joint Program for SOIL “Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils” (EJP SOIL) funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement N° 862695).
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/651
dc.identifier.citationVanino, S., Pirelli, T., Di Bene, C., Bøe, F., Castanheira, N., Chenu, C., Cornu, S., Feiza, V., Fornara, D., Heller, O., Kasparinskis, R., Keesstra, S., Lasorella, M. V., Madenoğlu, S., Meurer, K. H. E., O’Sullivan, L., Peter, N., Piccini, C., Siebielec, G., … Farina, R. (2023). Barriers and opportunities of soil knowledge to address soil challenges: Stakeholders’ perspectives across Europe. In Journal of Environmental Management (Vol. 325, p. 116581). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116581
dc.identifier.issn0301-4797
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116581
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/4.0/).
dc.subjectAgricultural soil
dc.subjectSoil knowledge
dc.subjectSoil challenge
dc.subjectScience to policy interface
dc.titleBarriers and opportunities of soil knowledge to address soil challenges: Stakeholders’ perspectives across Europe
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-10-18
dcterms.dateSubmitted2022-06-06

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